Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday signalled Nato member Turkey could send more troops and take over command of the alliance's peacekeeping force in Afghanistan next year.
Muslim Turkey held the rotating command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in 2002 following the US-led war to oust the Taleban. "There is a Nato request to send troops to Afghanistan, and we are now thinking of sending troops to Afghanistan," Erdogan told a news conference in London.
"As a Nato member we have the opportunity to renew the mission we carried out for ISAF previously. We are aware of our duties as a member of this international organisation," he said, adding he did not believe any deployment would require parliamentary approval.
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